The Little Details...

bluesboyjr

So, I've been playing GTA IV and its Episodes for a couple of years now. I was playing TBoGT yesterday, and I saw a taxi driver throw a Coke can out of his car window. The thing that amazed me was that in all of hundreds of hours I've put into the games, I swear that's the first time I saw that happen. I'm sure it has happened plenty of times, but it's such a tiny detail that I only noticed it when he chucked it out when driving right in front of Luis.

Also recently, I decided that I'd start playing my Xbox games using headphones instead of just playing the sound through the TV to see if I can get more drawn into the game, and let me tell you, it works. You can hear all the far-off generators and car alarms coming from different directions, and all the traffic sounds really make you feel like you're standing in Niko's spot. And this lead to another discovery - not only can you hear the radios of passing cars (I already knew that), but you can hear several at once. I always thought that the game could only load one station at a time, but there I was, on some street in Alderney where I'd scared a dozen or so drivers out of their cars with a gun, and from their abandoned cars I could hear some talk radio, the Radio Broker DJ and some Fusion FM, all coming into my head from different directions at the same time. Well, I thought it was pretty cool.

So yeah, this thread is to ask you guys what tiny little details have amazed you by how small and unnoticeable they are. Things that, when you do notice them, make you go "wow, I need to pay closer attention", things that make you praise Rockstar for their eagle-eye for detail.

AlexGTAGamer

I love discovering tiny little details in the game like those that have already been mentioned.

One tiny little detail in the game that I love I just found a few months back.

Me and a friend were playing some missions on TBOGT and we chose to replay Dropping In. I remember that in the game Luis had just jumped down the elevator shaft and my friend was struggling to shoot some of the targets who were taking cover behind corners. What he then did to flush the targets out was shoot the pipes above their heads which caused steam to shoot out and caused the targets to fall onto the floor screaming, as if they had been scalded. I loved this detail.

zackryderwoo

Started a new GTA 4 game today, and strangly for the first time ever, a random ped hailed a cab and got in and they drove off. A few minutes later I was walking from Niko apartment to Romans cab depot and a random ped picked up the phone and you could hear the person he was talking to.I also think its cool that if you hold triangle while getting out of your car, Niko will turn the car off completely. I also bought a sun glasses from the russian shop, and a minute later and car knocked Niko off his feet and the glasses fell off

StonersDarkness

Started a new GTA 4 game today, and strangly for the first time ever, a random ped hailed a cab and got in and they drove off. A few minutes later I was walking from Niko apartment to Romans cab depot and a random ped picked up the phone and you could hear the person he was talking to.I also think its cool that if you hold triangle while getting out of your car, Niko will turn the car off completely. I also bought a sun glasses from the russian shop, and a minute later and car knocked Niko off his feet and the glasses fell off

^^^ i know, i had a hat on and walked right out of the store and tried to cross the street and got struck by a car, sadly i lost the hat... lol

@Hove Beach, ok man, if your at a COMPLETE STOP... you can shut the car off/jump out with it still running... srry for the poor editing...

ON TOPIC: i like how if we were to run over flames in a vehicle your tires would catch fire and burst... there is just something about being TLAD with my tires on fire that seems AWESOME... LOL

Hove Beach

Started a new GTA 4 game today, and strangly for the first time ever, a random ped hailed a cab and got in and they drove off. A few minutes later I was walking from Niko apartment to Romans cab depot and a random ped picked up the phone and you could hear the person he was talking to.I also think its cool that if you hold triangle while getting out of your car, Niko will turn the car off completely. I also bought a sun glasses from the russian shop, and a minute later and car knocked Niko off his feet and the glasses fell off

^^^ i know, i had a hat on and walked right out of the store and tried to cross the street and got struck by a car, sadly i lost the hat... lol

@Hove Beach, ok man, if your at a COMPLETE STOP... you can shut the car off/jump out with it still running... srry for the poor editing...

ON TOPIC: i like how if we were to run over flames in a vehicle your tires would catch fire and burst... there is just something about being TLAD with my tires on fire that seems AWESOME... LOL

Yea thats what I thought, but I tried doin it at high speed... didnt work

Racecarlock

A few days ago I noticed how much the GTA IV map has in common with the actual new york. Then I looked at some comparison shots. God damn. They really worked to get it as accurate as possible. I would actually like to see what liberty state is like one day, along with what new jersey would look like from the rockstar perspective.

Nem_Wan

A few days ago I noticed how much the GTA IV map has in common with the actual new york. Then I looked at some comparison shots. God damn. They really worked to get it as accurate as possible. I would actually like to see what liberty state is like one day, along with what new jersey would look like from the rockstar perspective.

It's brilliant three-dimensional editing. It's astonishing to think that the GTA IV map only has 1% of the land area of the real New York City.